The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-27
SCHOOL GIRLS ON A LARK.
How They Travelled From Philadelphia to
the West without Escort.
[Philadelphia Times.


There was a great ado the last days of
Lent in a few of the fashionable schools
when it was known that large party of
girls, going home for Easter, had made up
q merry travelling party, and were to travel
by themselves. The rapid runs by the linn
tied express, in which they were to have
almost a whole car to themselves, made it
possible for them to arrive in Chicago the
morning after starting and be Joined there
by their friends. The girls whose parents
were not willing to have them leave for q
week, or who did not care to indulge in
such an expensive luxury, were thrown
into fit of the glums that even the promise
of the Easter entertainment at the school
failed to mitigate.
The merry party which started off and
that, with exceptions, returned together
consisted of Miss Bertha Buckley, of De-
troit; Miss Adelia Thorne. of Chicago; Miss
Daisy Field, of Indianapolis; Miss Jessie
Holland and Miss Marie Robey, of Chicago;
Miss Sadie Harmer, of Louisville; Miss
Lulu Chennowith, of Evanston, ILL.,; Miss
Virginia CrossWell, of st. Louis; Miss Fan
ME Haines, of Cincinnati; Miss Belle
Woodside, OF Burlington, Iowa; Miss Me-
LISA Camp, of Madison, Wis, and Miss
Alice Dunning, of Cincinnati. With Ill
sters in straps and handbags, and OCCASION
ally a small basket containing the choco-
city candies, including mar5h-mallo VS.
and peppermint drops, without which
such a trip would be impossible to
school girl, they started off, accompanied
by the huzzas and waving handkerchiefs of
the other girls who had come to the station
to see them off. A few of the girls who
had been given bouquets waved them out of
the windows. Like birds let loose, aud
with juvenile spirits all the more exuber-
mt Iron lcr1r cNbn al 4 Nrwa1T
never was a merrier travelling party on the
Chicago limited than this galaxy, all with
seats together, made. The accidental pres
ence of an evident bride and groom in the
same car set the girls of into paroxysms of
more or less depressed fun, and as far as
Harrisburg two of the merrlest of the girls
played" bride and groom in q way that
convulsed the others.
Besides the girls there were in the party
pug and parrot. The parrot is popu-
lar favorite at one of the schools and is
named Snap" in honor of the least popu-
lar of the lady teschers whose voice il has
been trained to initiate closely in Shrek
ing "More order, young ladies'" The pug
the precious pet of Chicago millionaire's
daughter, will not be admitted into the in
stitution, but she pays his board in tue
neighborhood, and goes to see him at least
once day and takes him with her on her
the young ladies' admirers. folio wing the
example of one of the most famous pugs in
Philadelphia, which has been named after
the author of francesca di Rimini" and
ex-president of the Philadelphia Club. The
pug and the parrot afforded much amuse-
ment, the parrot especially, by calling out
whenever anyone entered the car, "Ain't a
pretty?n The dog was only held in the
girls lap for while, as he had to be ban
ished to the baggage car, where two of the
girls went later in the day to feed him.
supply of novels brought along and
impromptu sketches of fellow travellers and
people seen at the stations amused the
girls until retiring time, when there was
again lot of fun in the sleeper, though the
fact that the berths were not all together
tended somewhat to put dampar on their
flow of spirits.
The party was well looked after by the
conductor and other train officials, and
made the trip both ways enjoyably and
without an unpleasant episode.